Coast Guard: Unmanned Navy aircraft crashes in Md.
Source: Associated Press
Coast Guard: Unmanned Navy aircraft crashes in Md.
BY BY
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NANTICOKE, Md. -- The Navy says an unmanned aircraft has crashed on Maryland's Eastern Shore and there are no injuries.
A spokeswoman for the Patuxent River Naval Air Station's Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons program says a 44-foot unmanned aircraft on a routine maintenance flight crashed near Bloodsworth Island around noon Monday.
U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Jonathan Lindberg says the Coast Guard is setting up a safety zone around the marshy area.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/11/2843887/coast-guard-unmanned-navy-aircraft.html
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)The naval air station here in Maryland routinely repairs and upgrades a variety of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). And when the work is done, they have to be flight-checked. No need to get all paranoid.
Around here, we also routinely see F/A-18 fighter jets in the sky; By the same token, there's no reason to assume they're there to bomb the U.S. populace.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)of COURSE that is their response. Do you expect them to say, "Yes, we are actively spying on Maryland Americans and we just lost one of our spycraft?"
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)..than spy on some farmers and watermen on the Eastern Shore.
The skies here over the Chesapeake are filled with all sorts of aircraft being flown for maintenance check flights, training, or simply so the pilot can get more hours in. In fact, out my window I just saw a Navy helicopter flying over the community. (I live in Southern Maryland.) Should I assume the Navy is spying on the jugs of cat litter I have sitting in the back of my truck?